FURTHER TESTING OF LIMITS OF COGNITIVE PLASTICITY - NEGATIVE AGE-DIFFERENCES IN A MNEMONIC SKILL ARE ROBUST
FURTHER TESTING OF LIMITS OF COGNITIVE PLASTICITY - NEGATIVE AGE-DIFFERENCES IN A MNEMONIC SKILL ARE ROBUST
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DOI：
10.1037/0012-1649.28.1.121
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发表时间：
1992-01-01
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
KLIEGL, R
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作者：
BALTES, PB;KLIEGL, R
早期关于记忆技能认知可塑性的年龄差异的极限测试研究扩展了18个额外的评估和训练课程，以探索老年人是否能够赶上额外的练习和改善的训练条件。 重点是轨迹法，它需要心理想象力来编码和检索记忆中的单词序列。 在最初的37名受试者中，35名（16名年轻人，年龄范围为20至30岁，19名老年人，年龄范围为66至80岁）参加了随访研究。 与年轻人相比，老年人表现出相当大的表现缺陷，并测试了储备能力的限制。 负的年龄差异是实质性的，抵抗广泛的实践，并适用于所有研究对象。 这种负年龄差异的主要原因可能是在生产和使用心理想象力的心灵运作的损失。
Earlier testing-the-limits research on age differences in cognitive plasticity of a memory skill was extended by 18 additional assessment and training sessions to explore whether older adults were able to catch up with additional practice and improved training conditions. The focus was on the method of loci, which requires mental imagination to encode and retrieve lists of words from memory in serial order. Of the original 37 subjects, 35 (16 young, ranging from 20 to 30 years of age, and 19 older adults, ranging from 66 to 80 years of age) participated in the follow-up study. Older adults showed sizable performance deficits when compared with young adults and tested for limits of reserve capacity. The negative age difference was substantial, resistant to extensive practice, and applied to all subjects studied. The primary origin for this negative age difference may be a loss in the production and use of mental imagination for operations of the mind.